Estella: Further Hair Practise

Step by step:

1. Draw a line with the tail comb from the front of the ear to the front of the other ear and this is your front section. 

2. Put in a middle parting using your tail comb in the front section and then clip the two front sections out of the way for now, using hair clips.

3. Take another section, about an inch in depth, following the straight line of the front section, put a middle parting in it and then clip both sections up. 

4. Take a section in a semi-cirlcle shape from behind the front sections and put it in a ponytail with an elastic. This sections starts from about 3 inches up on each side.

5. Split the ponytail into four and loop each section under to make a bun shape.

6. Curl the rest of the hair in small sections to make very defined curls. 

7. The big section of curled hair needs to be split into four, roughly equal, sections, so keep this in mind when you are taking each section.
8. Take the first section, split it roughly in half and twist both sides upwards from the root.
9. Secure both sides together and to the head, just under the bun with hair pins, making sure the sides are even.
10. Take another section below this, twist both halves and pin them in the middle of the head with hair pins. Make sure that this section seamlessly joins with the section above and that all the body is running down the centre of the back of the head and that the sides are flat.
11. Repeat these steps with the section below.
12. With the bottom section, so the same steps, but only pin up the sides of the section and leave the middle part hanging down to give the look some length.
13. Curl the small section behind the front sections with your curling wand.
14. Twist each of these curls back into the bun to hide the obvious bun shape.

15. Curl the two from sections with your curling wand, making sure to curl them in small sections. Curl some of them forwards and some back to give add more texture.

 16. Split the two halves into three sections and twist each section backwards towards the bun. On each side the curls need to be twisting away from the centre.
17. Secure these twists into the bun with some hair pins, making sure that some of the end curls are still loose.

I experimented with pinning some fake flowers into the back of the hair and I thought it looked really pretty and girly, however below I show a style which I much prefer.

18. I secured some blue fabric roses onto some hair pins with some thread and pinned them along the front of the hair, where the twists had been pinned into the bun. 

I am so excited by this hairstyle! I think it came out really well and accurate to the era. I really like how full and curly the back of the hair look and how the sides are swept back, but still have some fun twists, adding more detail and interest. I love how the flowers look almost like a head back and I think they compliment the shape of the hairstyle perfectly. To improve the look, I could add some serum into the curls at the end to make some of them look less frizzing and more defined. I am curious to see what this hairstyle looks like on my model, as she has thinner and silkier hair, but I will try and work around any problems as I really want to use this look for my final Estella look.